A Collection of Medals The Property of a Gentleman
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Five: Sergeant F. T. Rudd, Devonshire Regiment and afterwards Ilfracombe Fire Brigade
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (266216 Sjt. F. T. Rudd, Devon R.); JUBILEE 1935; NATIONAL FIRE BRIGADES ASSOCIATION LONG
SERVICE, with Bar for ‘Ten Years’, bronze (11480 Frederick T. Rudd); NATIONAL FIRE BRIGADES ASSOCIATION LONG SERVICE, with Bar
for ‘Twenty Years’, silver (6135 Frederick T. Rudd), this last with (damaged) box of issue, generally good very fine (5)
£120-150
Frederick Thomas Rudd was awarded the British War & Victory Medals in respect of services in the 2/6th Battalion, Devonshire
Regiment and was demobilised in March 1919; sold with original certificate of issue for the Long Service Medal in bronze, dated 25
April 1935, and inscribed Ilfracombe Fire Brigade.
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Six: Major J. Allan, Royal Army Medical Corps
BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Major J. Allan); TERRITORIAL FORCE WAR MEDAL 1914-19 (Capt. J. Allan, R.A.M.C.); TERRITORIAL
DECORATION, G.V.R., silver, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1921; VOLUNTARY MEDICAL SERVICES MEDAL, with Bar (Dr. J. Allan);
ST. ANDREWS AMBULANCE CORPS JUBILEE MEDAL 1954, together with related B.R.C.S. awards (3), all in gilt and enamel,
comprising Technician’s Badge for ‘Medical Officer’ (542 Dr. J. Allan), Honorary Life Member’s Lapel Badge, the
reverse officially numbered ‘406’, and Divisional President’s Badge for ‘Dumbartonshire’, generally good very fine or
better (9) £350-400
John Allan, who was born in Dumbarton in March 1873, qualified in medicine at Glasgow University and was appointed a Surgeon
Lieutenant in the 1st Dumbarton Rifle Volunteers in April 1906. Appointed to the R.A.M.C. (Territorial Force) in April 1908, he was
attached to the 9th Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, gaining advancement to Captain in the following year, and he was still
serving in that capacity on the outbreak of hostilities. But he did not go out to France until May 1917, where he was advanced to Major
in April 1918.
Having briefly relinquished his commission in September 1921, Allan rejoined the Territorials in January 1922, the same year in which
he was awarded his T.D. (London Gazette 13 October 1922, refers), and he finally retired in March 1928 on reaching the age limit of
55 years. Meanwhile, back in 1923, he had joined Denny’s (Dumbarton) Section of St. Andrew’s Ambulance Corps, in which capacity
he remained employed as an Honorary Surgeon until March 1956, and attended the 1954 Review. He was also a long standing
member of the British Red Cross Society, serving as a Divisional President with the County of Dumbartonshire and being appointed an
Honorary Life Member in May 1931, in addition to his duties as a G.P. at Dumbarton for over 50 years, where he was a Medical
Officer (later Superintendent) at Townsend Hospital; sold with research.
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